Omit dull and ineffective generalities and make sure you give concrete examples.

避免概括性的无用之词，给出具体的实例。

His immense weight and powerful tail, useless.

它庞大的身躯和强力的尾巴已无用武之地。

Indeed, selective forgetting of the useless is as important as selective remembering of the useful.

确实，选择性遗忘无用信息跟选择性记忆有用信息同样重。

As Bruce Lee once said, “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“调整有用的东西，剔除无用的东西，再加上你自己独有的东西。”

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness, because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

因为社会和学术的规定，当地的一些合作有时候虽然无用但续下去，但国际合作的建立和退出更加自由一点。

The collective “we” are dumbfounded that people still drive drunk, so I’ll sum it up like this. If you drive drunk, you — simply put — are a shortsighted, utterly useless, oxygen-wasting human form of pollution, a Darwin award-deserving, selfish coward.

我们都觉得震惊，至今仍有人会酒驾。所以我来总结一下。如果你酒驾，那么简而言之，你目光短浅、毫无用处、浪费氧气的人形污染物、达尔文奖得主、自私的懦夫。

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious.

认为自己高效能者，与认为自己无用者想法感觉完全不同。

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

我们不敢用软弱来招惹它们。因为只有我们的武力无比强大了，我们才敢确保它们永无用武之地。

Oftentimes, these are artistic sides of us that our environment may see as useless.

通常，这些我们的艺术方面，我们的环境可能会认为无用的。

He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring.

他把无用的水导流进水坑，让水在里面结冰，再把这些水储存到春天。

It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet.

技术发展向我们提供机会，在人电脑上一连几小时处理软件故障，或把因特网上那些无用的信息塞进自己的大脑。

This tip isn't actually really applicable to fiction since there are few parts that don't contribute to the overall story and they can be hard to identify.

这建议实际上不太适用于小说，因为几乎没有什么内容对于理解整故事没有用的，并且你难辨识出无用的内容。

Then, I'd say focus on signal over noise.

接着我说的第四点，专注于有用的信号而不嘈杂无用的声音。

As the world slowly starts to adopt those technologies, we may not even have to do our own grocery shopping anymore, making traditional paper and plastic money even less useful.

随着世界慢慢开始采用这些技术，我们甚至不需亲自去买日用杂货了，使传统的纸币和塑料货币变得更加无用。

It erases the belief that growing old means growing useless.

它消除了变老意味着变得无用的信念。

But even if every living creature on the planet could be logged, the data would be useless without understanding how every species relates to everything else.

但，哪怕地球上的每一种生物都能被记录下来，如果不对每物种与其他事物之间的关系进行了解，这些数据也将毫无用处。

You know, " Take care of my daughter, man! Take care of her! " Nothing can prepare a father for the day that he stands here as the father of the bride.

你懂吧，“照顾好我的女儿，你小子！照顾好她！”作为新娘的父亲站在这里的那一天，做再多的准备都无用了。

It's no use trying to argue with you when you fly into a fury.

当你愤怒时，设法与你争论无用的。

Your resolution will probably make you feel like crap for the first couple of weeks and without a plan to get yourself through you're destined to fail.

但过没几周你会觉得自己的决心毫无用处，而且没有计划使得你注定会失败。

Doctors remove the useless lens from the eye.

医生将无用的晶状体从眼睛中取出。